Numerous riders galloped out of Great Peace City. They were all the best posthuman of Li Yang. The posthuman they rode was actually the Emperor's beloved Ferghana horse. The posthuman riders galloped wildly on the Imperial Street. Everywhere they passed, no one dared to stop them.
The leader of the courier riders carried an urgent imperial edict that was eight hundred li away.
The imperial edict did not follow the rules of etiquette. Other than being stamped with the national seal of Emperor Li Yang, there were only four words on the golden silk: Fight or retreat.
When the courier riders galloped out of the city, there just happened to be a person slowly walking through the southern city gate. The ferghana horse actually passed right through this person's body. There was no scene of the person being thrown off his horse, nor was there a scene of flesh and blood. The rider continued south to deliver the urgent secret edict. The visitor from Great Peace City still entered the city unscathed. There weren't even any soldiers patrolling the city to capture this person. All of the soldiers and commoners near the southern gate ignored him. After he entered the city, he went all the way to the Xiama Wei Courier Station and stopped under a dragon claw scholar tree. He saw fourteen men with sabers walk out of this courier station that was specially provided for the soldiers of the Xu family. They all mounted their horses and headed towards the imperial city. The young man under the dragon claw scholar tree followed behind like an immortal riding the wind. From beginning to end, no one looked at him.
However, he recognized them, or rather, he could guess their identities. The leader of the group was an old man called Feng Ling. He came from the grasslands of Liaodong and was a fierce general under Xu Xiao's command. He was sixty years old and had become a third-rank high official in the capital two years ago through his own military achievements. It had to be known that at the beginning of summer last year, Xu Xiao had only been a second-rank second-rank high official.
The last rider was Zhu Changfu, who came from the horse bandits of Liaoxi and was the founder of the Fish Drum Camp. He had not recovered from his heavy injuries and was temporarily in the capital. He was unable to follow the cavalry of the Xu family down south.
Next was the surrendered general Zhang Dujian. In the end, he retired from the position of commander of the Lotus Seed Camp.
Qin Yun was an old soldier and had only been a "high official" like a sergeant in his entire life.
Zhao Fengyang, a native of Ji Zhou, was the most senior scout in the Xu family's army. Ever since he was shot in the back by a poisonous arrow, he would fall ill every time it rained. The pain seeped into his bones, so he had no choice but to retire from the army.
Song Kaijuan, nicknamed Shaking Head Scholar, had studied for a few days and liked to shake his head when talking with people. He used to be the military advisor of a group of bandits in Liaoxi. However, he ran into Xu Xiao, who was still a lieutenant at that time, and was wiped out. Song Kaijuan profited from his misfortune and turned from a bandit to a soldier. As he grew older, he found it harder and harder to ride a horse, so he opened a restaurant in Great Peace City. As long as one was a comrade of the Xu family's cavalry, there would be enough meat, wine, and food to fill their stomachs. Thus, he had been doing business at a loss all these years, but the old scholar didn't feel any heartache. He was always nagging at his wife and children.
In total, there were fourteen of them. They were all old men who had luckily survived the rain of spears and arrows. They should have spent their later years in the capital.
At this very moment, the two northern regimes that historians would call Northern Han and Eastern Yue had been destroyed one after another. During this period, Xu Xiao first forced the death of Northern Han's Great General Fan, who had the reputation of being the "Divine Wood of the Great Han". Like a hot knife through butter, he led his army to break into the Imperial Palace and rode his horse into the throne room. On the other side of the southern expedition, Lu Shengxiang led a thousand cavalrymen into Luzhou on a snowy night, opening the door to Eastern Yue in one fell swoop. Gu Jiantang easily captured half of the country without shedding a drop of blood. Next to the bed of the Zhao family in Liyang, there were no outsiders sleeping soundly. Afterwards, the Zhao family's son stood on the side of Xu and Gu, two young and strong military officers who had rendered meritorious service. Against the objections of the masses, he insisted on a decisive battle that would decide the fate of the world with Da Chu, whose soldiers and majestic armor were not inferior to Liyang's. However, after the Battle of Jinghe, the battle to the death at the imperial concubine's grave, and several major battles in succession, Liyang's troops, who had always held the absolute advantage in the previous battles, began to suffer setbacks one after another. Until the two armies confronted each other at the western wall, neither side dared to claim that victory was in their grasp. Moreover, Da Chu had the War Saint Ye Baikui, who was known to be victorious in a hundred battles, personally holding the line. The people in the Liyang imperial court began to waver. Following Xu Xiao's holding back for a long time, the rumors and slanders in the capital covered the sky and covered the earth. There were even several extremely important secret spy reports that were sent into the imperial palace with irrefutable evidence. The Da Chu emperor's personal sealed secret letter was placed on Xu Xiao's desk in the barracks. He wanted to rule the world together with Xu Xiao, who had suffered grievances in the Liyang imperial court.
The pro-war faction in the imperial court that advocated first conquering Da Chu and then conquering the world did not have many people to begin with. With the two armies facing each other at the western wall, victory and defeat were hard to predict. If they lost, they would lose the entire northern territory that they had fought so hard to conquer. Even Gu Jiantang, who the imperial court had placed high hopes on, began to choose to remain silent and slow down the speed of their advance to the south. As a result, no one in the Liyang imperial court was willing to speak up for Xu Xiao. All of Xu Xiao's past acts of overstepping his authority were listed out. All of the civil and military officials in the imperial court urged the emperor to quickly recall the 300,000 troops that Liyang had stationed at the western wall. Otherwise, if Xu Xiao harbored any thoughts of rebellion, not only would he be able to fight for the world with Da Chu, even Liyang's assets would be overturned.
The old man, Feng Ling, sat high on his horse. The imperial city gates in his field of vision grew taller and taller. His horsemanship was skillful. Although he had been living in Great Peace City for the past few years, he had never fallen behind. The old man tilted his head and fiercely spat at the imperial street. He stretched out his thumb and habitually wiped the corner of his mouth. He muttered, "You bastards are all acting like you're dying in front of the emperor. If you're not wearing mourning clothes, you're making people carry your coffins. There's even someone who pretended to ram his head into a beam in the throne room. In the end, your mother, not a single one of you died! I'll let you cowards know how the Xu family's cavalry lives and how they die! "
The fourteen riders arrived outside the imperial city gates. Feng Ling stopped his horse in the middle and the other thirteen riders lined up in a line. Then, the fourteen of them dismounted at the same time. They let go of the reins at the same time and touched the necks of their horses.
Zhang Dujian grinned and turned to look at Song Kaijuan. "Shaking Head Scholar, we're all rough men and can't speak. You're the only one who's educated, why don't you do it?"
Song Kaijuan rolled his eyes and said, "Change to someone with a louder voice."
Qin Yun, who single-handedly established the First Ascension Camp, said softly, "Fuck his mother! I really want to have a chance to climb up the city gates with my brothers and plant our Xu family's flag. "
Zhao Fengyang laughed and scolded, "Son of a bitch, if you do that, won't that confirm the rumors of us rebelling? Shut your crooked mouth."
Feng Ling touched the hilt of the saber at his waist and said softly, "It doesn't matter how loud or loud we are. Even if those officials hear us, they'll just pretend they didn't hear us."
Even if Song Kaijuan agreed with others, he would subconsciously shake his head and say with a smile, "I, Old Song, only know how to come up with bad ideas. I've never been to the battlefield, let alone charge and break through the enemy lines. Why don't I, Old Song, go first today?"
Jiang Sheng, who had always looked down on Song Kaijuan, gave him a thumbs up and said with a smile, "Scholar Song, you've been cowardly and afraid of death all your life, but this time you're a real man. I, Jiang Sheng, have scolded you many times before, but today I'm convinced. I'll give you a compliment and apologize to you!"
Zhu Zhangfu laughed softly and said, "It's too late. Once we're underground, Old Song won't have any restaurants for us to drink."
The old Scholar exhaled heavily and looked at his old brothers on both sides. He said in a deep voice, "Song Kaijuan will go first."
At the same time, Feng Ling angrily shouted, "Draw your sabers!"
Fourteen Xu family sabers, fourteen lives.
Generously going to their deaths.
The young man was like a lonely ghost that was neither in the world of the living nor the world of the dead. He could only stand quietly behind the fourteen people and watch as they slit their own throats at the same time and fell backward almost at the same time.
He walked to Feng Ling's side, squatted down and slowly stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to help the old man close his eyes.
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Dantong Pass. Inside the pass, there were restrictions and countless sentries. Outside the pass, there were nearly a thousand elite cavalrymen patrolling the area all day long.
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